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giovedì 15 gennaio 2015

This is the goal distribution, updated as of today, in the top six European football leagues.The distribution is per segments of 15 minutes, plus the injury time after the 90th minute.You can find the previous table here.Now all the countries are aligned regarding the time segment with the fewest goals (first 15 minutes).

mercoledì 7 gennaio 2015

There could be no need for a ranking to understand which is the best team of 2014: Real Madrid dominated the year, winning the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup, the FIFA World Cup, the Copa del Rey, and with a 22 wins streak between September and December.Nevertheless, I decided to create a ranking that considers only the club teams of England, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain, that played in the top division both in 2013-14 and in 2014-15 seasons.The calculation system is the following.Domestic League - points made plus goal difference divided by 2,5; the total is then divided by the number of games played.European Cup - same as above, but the total is also multiplied (or divided, if negative) by a coefficient, which is:Champions League 2013-14: 1,3Europe League 2013-14: 1,2Champions League 2014-15: 1,2Europe League 2014-15: 1,1Furthermore, the scores of all the teams are adjusted to ensure that none of them is negative. The best score remains unchanged, while the worst is converted to 1, and all the other scores are adjusted proportionally. This is the formula to make the adjustment (TS = team score, BS = best score, WS = worst score): TS + ((1-WS)/(BS-WS))*(BS-TS).The domestic and the European scores are then summed up, and some bonuses are added to the total:CL winner: 0,50CL runner-up: 0,40CL semifinalist: 0,30EL winner: 0,30EL runner-up: 0,20EL semifinalist: 0,10Domestic league winner: 0,15Domestic cup winner: 0,05Domestic Super Cup winner: 0,05UEFA Super Cup winner: 0,05FIFA World Cup winner: 0,05In the table below there are the top 10 teams.The complete ranking is on this page.

domenica 4 gennaio 2015

The 66% threshold that I put in the ranking showed in the previous post about the equalizers were actually too much restrictive, because many significative results were excluded from the tables.In the following tables, the threshold is reduced to 50%. This means that, to enter in the ranking, a team has to score or concede a "leading goal" a number of teams equal at least to the 50% of the matches played.The matches are the same taken into consideration previously, as of the 31st of December.Ability to equalize: in this ranking the leader is now Bayer Leverkusen, who conceded 11 times a goal that gave the lead to their opponents, and 8 times they were able to equalize it.Opponent's ability to equalize: Guimaraes and Malaga didn't concede any equalizer to the opponent teams, after having taken the lead 8 and 9 times, respectively.